Aetheral Space - Chapter 543 - 17.15: The Smell of Smoke

“Sect Master! Marry me!”If only things were that simple.Fang Yuan lets out a long sigh, eyes fixed on the mountain of paperwork threatening to swallow his desk and his soul.As the youngest family head in history, you’d think he’d be enjoying fame, fortune, and fawning admirers.Instead, he’s buried in bureaucracy, stuck mediating elder disputes, and wondering if the sect treasury mysteriously eats spirit stones.Sure, the old geezers have their experience, their beards, and their lofty reputations.But Fang Yuan? He has one thing they don’t: raw, unshakable power.Born into a world where innate talent reigns supreme, Fang Yuan—a transmigrator armed with modern grit—actually managed the impossible: he clawed his way to the top with nothing but relentless hard work.While everyone else coasted on heavenly bloodlines and golden physiques, he trained, he studied, and he schemed.Now, he’s strong enough to bend heaven’s will.But cultivation isn’t all sword beams and glory.Life as a family head comes with its own set of woes—namely, watching his annoyingly handsome junior brother collect all the female attention like some kind of walking romance novel.“This isn’t fair,” Fang Yuan mutters under his breath, stamping another scroll. “I’m the protagonist here... right?”

This is a rigorous multiverse cultivation novel!Watch the protagonist, Zhong Shenxiu, as he wanders through various realms, pursues longevity, explodes the system, and becomes the master of the multiverse.Here, there are modern martial arts, classical cultivation, jianghu of Cthulhu, horror worlds, steam punk…Infinite worlds, infinite possibilities, all in the 'Lord Shenxiu'!

The story of an ordinary young man who was about to graduate from high school in a month. He lived his life in survival mode because his parents had died, leaving him to support himself and his three younger siblings.One day, while at school, the four most beautiful girls in school, known for being difficult to approach, suddenly slammed his desk together and declared,“I'm pregnant with your baby, take responsibility!”The young man was shocked and dizzy because he felt his life was already difficult, and now he was accused of impregnating the four top girls in his school.But when his grandfather's inheritance was read, he finally understood the reason and learned what had happened: his grandfather had not left him an inheritance in the form of assets but rather a system called CATS, which had been passed down through generations in his family.He ultimately struggled to provide for his younger siblings and the four pregnant girls who would become his wives by completing the strange and extraordinary tasks provided by CATS.

In the foreign world, the martial artists dominate the world and the sword of the emperor controls the fate of hundreds of millions of lives! Long Yu, the number one killer on Earth, after dying, takes rebirth in this new world in an aristocratic family of martial artists but faces rejection because he is unable to practice martial arts.

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